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GUIDE TO HIST¬ 
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SAMOSET HOUSE, 

MRS. E. E. GREEN, Proprietor. 

Court Street, head of Railroad Park, 

PLYMOUTH, MASS. 


A first-class hotel in every respect. Accommodations for one 
hundred guests. Commodious public rooms, steam heat, elec¬ 
tric lights, baths, long distance telephone. Three minutes’ walk 
from Pilgrim Hall or National Monument, and convenient to all 
other points of historic interest and the county buildings. 


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Historic Plymouth 


Localities and Objects of Interest 


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Contents. 


New Registry Building . 

The Landing . 

Public Library . 

Compact . 

Beach Point .. 

Burial Hill .... . 

Church of the First Parish . 

Church of the Pilgrimage . 

Clark’s Island. 

Cole’s Hill . 

Court House . 

Courtship . 

Gov. Bradford’s House in 1621 . 

Gurnet . 

Harbor . 

Industries . 

Landing of the Pilgrims . 

Leyden Street .. 

Manomet Bluffs . 

Myles Standish Monument . 

Morton Park . . 

National Monument. 

North Street . 

Old Fort and First Meeting-House, 1621 


Old Houses . 

Pilgrim Antiquities ... 

Pilgrim Exiles . 

Pilgrim Hall . 

Plymouth as a Summer Resort . 

Plymouth High School . 

Plymouth in 1627 .« 

Plymouth Rock .■ 

Prison . «•*••• 

The Town. 

Town Brook . 

Town Square . 

Voyage of the Mayflower Shallop 

Watch Tower . 

Watson’s Hill . 


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NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE FOREFATHERS 










Historic Plymouth. 


“The Pilgrim Fathers—where are they? 

The waves that brought them o’er 
Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray, 

As they break along the shore.” 

HE introduction of visitors to Plymouth as they 
come bv rail, is at Seaside, a station in the ex¬ 
treme north part of the town. The dividing line 
between Kingston and Plymouth runs through 
the middle of the little station, and the northerly 
part, which is the residence of the station keeper, is in King¬ 
ston, and the southerly part, the station proper, is in Plymouth. 

As the cars slow up passengers see the beautiful pano¬ 
rama of Plymouth Harbor, spread out before their eyes. At 




PLYMOUTH ROCK 

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the near left, across the bay, appears Captain’s Hill, so called 
from its being the home of Capt. Myles Standish, and on its 
crest is a monument in honor of the Pilgrim' warrior, sur¬ 
mounted by a statue of fourteen feet in height. Farther along 
is seen Rouse’s Hummock, the American terminus of the 
French Atlantic cable. The next prominent object is Clark’s 
Island, where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath in Plym¬ 
outh. Next to this is the headland of Saquish, and beyond is 
the Gurnet with its twin lighthouses. Opposite these, the 
bold bluff of Manomet thrusts itself out into the bay, while 



captain's hill, duxbury 


STANDISH HOUSE, BUILT BY SON OF MYLES STANDISH, 1 666 

nearer inland the long, thin ribbon of Plymouth Beach runs 
across the harbor, like an artificial breakwater, to arrest the 
waves of the ocean. 

Few scenes can surpass this in loveliness, if the visitor is 
fortunate enough to arrive when the tide is in. Although by 
the configuration of the land Plymouth Harbor seems to have 

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been designed for a perfect haven against every wind that 
blows, unfortunately it is dependent upon a full sea for depth 
enough of water to float vessels of much draught at the 
wharves. In 1876 the United States Government dug a 
channel from the wharves to Broad Channel, where there is 
always a good depth of water, so that now vessels drawing 
nine feet can come to the wharves at low tide, and at high tide 
those drawing fifteen to eighteen feet. Further improvements 
have since been made by the Government in this channel, and 
at the wharves. With the assistance of the State of Massa¬ 
chusetts a channel with eighteen feet at mean low water is now 
provided for from Beach Point to the wharf of the Plymouth 
Cordage Co., enabling that great industrial plant to bring its 
fibre for manufacture direct from Mexico and Manila to its 
mills by its own chartered lines of steamships. 

Immediately upon leaving the station of the New York, 
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, on arrival in Plymouth, and 
while traversing Old Colony Park to Court Street, the main 
street of the town, the Samoset House is in full view in the 
front. Looking towards the Samoset House, on the way 
through the park, the first street on its right leading from 
Court Street is Cushman Street; and the walk continued up 
Cushman Street will shortly bring the visitor to 

The National Monument to the Fore¬ 
fathers. 

HE corner stone of the National Monument was 
laid Aug. 2 , 1859 , and the work entrusted to 
Hammatt Billings, who drew the design for the 
Monument in all its details. The main pedestal 
was put in position in 1876 , and in the following 
summer the statue of Faith was erected. The Monument 



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was completed in October, 1888 , and dedicated with appropri¬ 
ate ceremonies Aug. 1 , 1889 . It is built entirely of granite, 
the statues all coming from the quarries of the Hallowed 
Granite Company, of Maine. (See frontispiece) 

The idea of building a monument to the memory of the 


LAW 

Pilgrim Fathers was early entertained in the town, and was 
formed into a definite object bv the organization of the Pil¬ 
grim Society ; which object was kept steadily in view by them, 
and prosecuted to a successful conclusion. 

The plan of the principal pedestal is octagonal, with four 
small and four large faces; from the small faces project 










MORALITY 

she is addressing, she seems to call them to trust in a higher 
power. On each of the four smaller or wing pedestals is a 
seated figure; they are emblematic of the principles upon 
which the Pilgrims proposed to found their commonwealth. 
The first is Morality, holding the Decalogue in her left, and 
the scroll of Revelation in her right hand; her look is upward 


four buttresses or wing pedestals. On the main pedestal 
stands a figure of Faith. One foot rests upon Forefathers’ 
Rock; in her left hand she holds a Bible; with the right up¬ 
lifted she points to heaven. .Looking downward, as to those 


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ONE OE THE ALTO-RELIEFS ON PEDESTAL. THE EIRST TREATY WITH THE INDIANS. 































toward the impersonation of the Spirit of Religion above; in 
a niche, on one side of her throne,, is a prophet, and in the 
other one of the Evangelists. The second of these figures is 
Law: on one side Justice; on the other Mercy. The third is 
Education: on one side wisdom, ripe with years; on the other 
Youth, led by Experience. The fourth figure is Freedom; on 
one side Peace rests under its protection; on the other Tyranny 
is overthrown by its powers. Upon the faces of these project¬ 
ing pedestals are alto-reliefs, representing scenes from the 
history of the Pilgrims.—the Departure from Delft Haven; 
the Signing of the Social Compact; the Landing at Plymouth; 
and the first Treaty with the Indians. On each of the four 
faces of the main pedestal is a large panel for records. That in 
front contains the general inscription of the monument, viz., 
“National Monument to the Forefathers. Erected by a grate¬ 
ful people in remembrance of their labors, sacrifices and suffer¬ 
ings for the cause of civil and religious liberty.” The right 
and left panels contain the names of those who came over in 
the “Mayflower.” The rear panel is plain, to have an inscrip¬ 
tion at some future day. 

The total height of the Monument is eighty-one feet, from 
the ground to the top of the head of the statue. The follow¬ 
ing are some of the dimensions of this great piece of work, 
said, on good authority, to be the largest and finest piece of 
granite statuary in the world: the height of the base is forty- 
five feet; height of statue, thirty-six feet. The outstretched 
arm measures, from shoulder to the elbow, ten feet one and 
one-half inches; from elbow to tip of finger, nine feet nine 
inches; total length of arm, nineteen feet ten and one-half 
inches. The head measures around at the forehead thirteen 
feet seven inches. The points of the stars in the wreath 
around the head are just one foot across. The arm, just 
below the short sleeve, measures six feet ten inches around; 


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below the elbow, six feet two inches. The wrist is four feet 
around. The length of the finger pointing upwards is two 
feet one inch, and is one foot eight and one-half inches around. 
The thumb measures one foot, eight and one-half inches 
around. The circumference of the neck is nine feet two 
inches, and the nose is one foot four inches long. From 
centre to centre of the eyes is one foot six inches. The figure 
is two hundred and sixteen times life-size. 


Pilgrim Hall. 



ETURNING to Court Street (the main street! 
from the Monument grounds, and passing the 
head of Old Colony Park, we soon see on our 
left a building with a Doric portico, standing a 
^ little way from the street. This is Pilgrim Hall, 
erected in 1824 by the Pilgrim .Society as a monumental hall 
to the memory of the Pilgrims. In 1880 , without taking 
down the yvalls, it was rebuilt in a fireproof manner, at a 
cost of over $ 15 , 000 ,by Joseph Henry Stickney,Esq.,a wealthy 
Baltimore merchant of Boston nativity, who on a casual visit 
to Plymouth became so impressed with the importance of pre¬ 
serving with the greatest care the interesting relics of the Pil¬ 
grims there deposited, that he most liberally made this large 
expenditure to secure these precious memorials from loss by 
fire. At the same time he provided for better classification 
and exhibition of the articles, those immediately connected 


with the Pilgrims being disposed, mostly in glass cases, in the 
main hall, while an interesting museum of antique curiosities 
is arranged in the room below. Exteriorly, marked improve- 


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ment was made by raising the Doric porch to the height of the 
main building, ornamenting the pediment with a finely exe¬ 
cuted allegorical “Landing,” in demi-relief, and repainting and 
sanding the whole front in imitation of stone. Quite a change 
was made at the same time in the front area by the removal of 
the portion of Plymouth Rock, which for forty-six years had 
been a prominent object here, back to the Landing-place. 
The iron fence formerly surrounding the part of the Rock in 



PILGRIM HALL 

front .of Pilgrim Hall has heraldic curtains which bear the 
names of the forty-one- signers of the memorable “Compact,” 
for self-government made in the cabin of the “Mayflower” in 
Cape Cod harbor. After this portion /of the Rock was re¬ 
turned to the original Landing-place the fence was placed at 
the northerly side of the Plall, inclosing a massive granite slab 
on which the wording of the Compact is enduringly cut. The 
hall is kept open daily, with the exception of Sundays, at reg¬ 
ular hours, for the accommodation of visitors, a fee of twenty- 


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five cents being charged. In the vestibule of the building a 
handsome tablet of Tennessee marble bears the following 
inscription:— 

PILGRIM HALL. 

BUILT A. D . i 8 2 4 , 

BY THE 

PILGRIM SOCIETY, 

IN MEMORY OF THE FOREFATHERS. 


REBUILT A. D. 1880 , 

BY 

JOS. HENRY STICKNEY, 

Of Baltimore, Md. 

At the right is the curator’s neatly furnished office, where 
visitors find entrance to the.main hall. In this office is a pict¬ 
ure of the “Landing,” executed in distemper, presented by 
Robert G. Shaw, of Boston. 

On the wall hangs a commission from Oliver Cromwell, 
Lord Protector of England, to Gov. Edward Winslow, as one 
of the arbitrators between Great Britain and the United Prov¬ 
inces of Holland. It is written on parchment, and is particu¬ 
larly valuable from having a contemporaneous portrait of 
Cromwell, which is on the upper left hand corner. The origi¬ 
nal signature was torn off by some unscrupulous visitor, but 
has been supplied by a finely executed facsimile. There are 
other parchments containing the autographs of persons attend¬ 
ing the celebration of the Pilgrim Society, Dec. 22 , 1820 , at 
which time the Hon. Daniel Webster delivered his famous 
oration. On the back of one of the parchments are autographs 
of the members of the Standish Guards who did escort duty 
on that occasion and were present at the dinner. The roll con¬ 
tains the names of many distinguished men of those times. 


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The main hall is forty-six by thirty-nine feet, with walls 
twenty-two feet high, and is lighted entirely from the roof. 
A good background is made for the pictures by plain marooh 
coloring of the walls, with a handsome Grecian border above, 
while neat frescoing covers the ceiling. At the east end is 
the large picture of the “Landing,” thirteen by sixteen feet, 
painted by Henry, Sargent, of Boston, an amateur artist, and 
presented bv him to the Society in 1834. Its estimated value 
was $3,000, and the massive frame cost about $400. At the 
left is a portrait of the venerable Dr. James Thacher, the first 
secretary of the Pilgrim Society. He was the author of 
Thacher’s Military Journal and a History of Plymouth, which 
has been considered one of the best ever published. The pict¬ 
ure upon the right is a fine painting, and a most excellent like¬ 
ness of the gentleman who so disinterestedly and generously 
remodelled and beautified Pilgrim Hall,—-Joseph Henry Stick- 
ney, Esq., of Baltimore. The portrait was painted by D. G. 
Pope, a Baltimore artist, and in subject and execution is 
worthy of its place in this Pilgrim temple. 

In the middle of the south wall is hung the large copy of 
Wier’s Embarkation from Delft Haven, from the original in 
the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, done for theSociety 
by Edgar Parker. 

In the centre of the west side hangs the noble gift of ex- 
Gov. Alexander H. Rice, of Massachusetts,—Charles Lucy’s 
large painting of the Embarkation. This picture is of great 
value, and at a prize exhibition in England took the first pre¬ 
mium of a thousand guineas. It is altogether different in 
color and tone from either of the others, and will bear close 
study. 

Upon the westerly wall is a number of portraits, including 
those of Hon. Joshua Thomas, the first president of the So¬ 
ciety, and of Deacon Ephraim Spooner. The latter was a 


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prominent citizen of the town, chairman of the selectmen 
through the Revolutionary War, in which capacity he rendered 
the country efficient service, and for fifty-one years he was 
town clerk. There are larger portraits of Gen. Jos. Trumbull, 
first speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington, 
and of Hon. Daniel Webster, the famous Massachusetts states¬ 
man, whose home was in Marshfield, near Plymouth. Besides 
these are a fine portrait of Washington, and a copy from an 
original portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, painted in 1775 by E. 
Alcock, London, and formerly the property of President Jef¬ 
ferson. Prominent among the pictures in the collection is the 
original crayon sketch, made in 1817 by Edwin White, for his 
large picture of “The Signing of the Compact/' in the Trum¬ 
bull Gallery at New Haven, Conn. There are also engravings 
of scenes in Pilgrim historV, some of much merit, and a map 
of New England territory by William Hack, 1663, is of much 
antiquarian value. 

Across the head of the hall, under the Sargent picture, is a 
raised platform and railing, and here are shown the large arti¬ 
cles connected with Pilgrim history, as the chairs of Elder 
Brewster and Gov. Carver, the Peregrine White cradle and the 
Fuller cradle. A case at the opposite end of the hall contains 
a collection of articles belonging to the First Church, among 
which is the note-book of Elder Faunce; a number of interest¬ 
ing autographs; and a collection of vessels used in the Sacra¬ 
ment, presented to the church many years ago, but now super¬ 
seded by those of more modern style. 

The Alden case contains John Alden’s Bible, printed in 
1629; a halberd he once owned and probably brought with him 
in the “Mayflower”; also ancient documents with his signa¬ 
ture. In the Standish case is the famous Damascus sword of 
the redoubtable Pilgrim captain. Gen. Grant, on his visit to 
Plymouth, Oct. 14, 1880, was much interested in this ancient 

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weapon, and handled it with evident satisfaction. The 
Arabic inscriptions on the blade have always been a puzzle, 
and, notwithstanding many attempts, remained undeciphered 
until the visit to the town, June 7, 1881, of Prof. James Rose- 



SWORD, POT AND PLATTER OF MYLES STAND1SH 


dale, of Jerusalem, with a troupe of Arabs from Palestine. 
Mr. Rosedale, being an excellent linguist, was show# the 
sword, and pronounced the inscription to be of different dates; 
one of them in Cufic, very old, and the other in mediaeval 
Arabic of a later period, but still very ancient. To the last he 
readily gave the following translation:— 

“With peace God ruled His slaves ( creatures ), and with 
the judgment of His arm He troubled the mighty of the 
wicked” 

He had no doubt that the weapon dated back two or three 
centuries before the Christian era, and might be much older. 
It is probable that this famous blade came down to Capt. 
Standish from the Crusaders, and possessed an interesting 
history even in his day. In this case are an iron pot and 


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other articles found a number of years since in the cellar of 
the Standish house at Duxbury. There is also a piece of em¬ 
broidery, worked by the daughter of Capt. Standish, at the 
bottom of which is wrought the following verse:— 

Lorea Standish is my name, 

Lord, guide my heart that I may do Thy will; 

Also fill my hands with such convenient skill 
As will conduce to virtue void of shame, 

And I will give the glory to Thy name. 



WINSLOW RELICS 

The Winslow case has articles that have been in possession 
of this family, and near by is a chair formerly the property of 
Gov. Edward Winslow. The White case contains interesting 
relics formerly belonging to William White and his son Pere- 


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grine. Another miscellaneous case holds the gun barrel with 
which King Phillip was killed. The original manuscript of 
Mrs. Hemans’ celebrated ode, “The breaking waves dashed 
high,” as also the original of William Cullen Bryant’s poem, 
“Wild was the day, the wintry sea,” both presented by the late 
James T. Fields, of Boston, are also in this case. There is 
here likewise a piece of a mulberry-tree planted at Scrooby, 
England by Cardinal Woolsey. In a small steel safe in the 
hall near the entrance from the office is kept Gov. Bradford’s 
Bible, printed at Geneva in 1592. The safe is open during vis¬ 
iting hours to allow a view of the sacred volume. Conspicuous 
in the hall also is the coat-of-arms of the British crown, which 
in “Good old colony times, when we were under the king,” 
hung over the judge’s seat in the colonial court house, now our 
old Town House. When the Revolution broke out and the 
loyalists had to flee, this was carried away bv the Tory judge, 
or clerk of the courts, to Shelburne, N. S., from whence it 
was returned some years ago, to its old home. 

The north ante-room is worthy the attention of visitors, and 
contains, with other things, an old sofa formerly owned by 
Gov. Hancock, upon which he probably sat and plotted treason 
with Samuel Adams against the English crown. In a case 
here are preserved the bones of the Indian chief Iyanough dis¬ 
covered at Barnstable, May, 1861. A large copper kettle and 
other implements were found with the skeleton. 

A fire-proof annex for the valuable library of the Pilgrim 
Society was built on the northerly side of the hall in 1904, 
and on the steel shelves behind substantial metal lattices, found 
necessary to protect the books from persons of predatory incli¬ 
nations, some 3000 volumes are arranged in handsome cabi¬ 
nets. Some of these books are very rare indeed and if lost or 
destroyed could not be replaced. The oldest volume bears 
the imprint of T559* 


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In the library on the north wall are the original portraits of 
the Winslow family, given to the Society by the late Isaac 
Winslow of Hingham in 1883. The group consists of Gov. 
Edward Winslow, Gov. Josiah Winslow and his wife Penel¬ 
ope, Elizabeth Wenslev the grandmother of Gen. John Win¬ 
slow, Gen. John himself in his scarlet uniform, Dr. Isaac Win¬ 
slow and John the son of Dr. Isaac Winslow. Josiah Winslow 
was the first native-born governor of the colony. His grand¬ 
son, Gen. John Winslow, was a major-general of the British 
army, and held several important commands. He was the offi¬ 
cer who, under orders from England, removed from their 
homes the French Acadians, whose sorrows Longfellow has 
made classic. The house in which he lived is still standing 
on the corner of Main and North street. It was built in 1730. 
The portrait of Gov. Edward Winslow is the only one in exis¬ 
tence, so far as known, of any person who came in the “May¬ 
flower.” 

The other portraits opposite the Winslow group are those of 
the Rev. John Alden, great-grandson of John Alden of the 
“Mayflower”; Rev. Dr. James Kendall, for fifty-two years 
minister of the First Church; Hon. John Davis and Col. John 
Trumbull. Between these portraits, above the library en¬ 
trance, is W. F. Halsall’s valuable and finely executed painting 
of the “Mayflower” at anchor in Plymouth harbor in the win¬ 
ter of 1620. A model of the “Mayflower,” made and rigged 
by Capt. E. S. Turner, one of Plymouth’s noted ship-masters, 
is placed on top of a cabinet near Halsall’s picture. 

A case at the west end of the library contains, among many 
interesting books and documents, the oldest state paper in 
existence in the United States. This is the first patent granted 
to the Plymouth colonists by the New England Company. 
A patent was granted by the Virginia Company in the name 
of John Wincob, but never used. About the time of the de- 


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pa.rt.nre of the Forefathers from England for this country, a 
new company was created by a royal charter, within the limits 
of which Plymouth was included, and in 1621 this patent was 
given to John Pierce and his associates by the New England 
Company, and sent over in the “Fortune,” arriving here in 
November of that year. This patent was found in the land 
office in Boston, among a mass of old papers, by William 
Smith, Esq., one of the land committee. The Hon. John 
Davis, then editing a new edition of Morton’s New England 
Memorials, obtained it for his use in that book, and from him 
it came into the possession of the late Nathaniel Morton 
Davis, Esq., in whose family it remained until recently, and 
was finally deposited in the hall by Mrs. Wm. H. Whitman. 
It bears the seals and signatures of the Duke of Lenox, the 
Marquis of Hamilton, the Earl of Warwick and Sir Ferdi- 
nando Gorges. There is one other signature, but it is so ob¬ 
scurely written as to be illegible. 

There is also a book given to Gov. Bradford by Pastor John 
Robinson, brought over in the “Mayflower” 'by Bradford and 
afterwards given by him to the church. A book printed by 
Elder Brewster and a copy of Seneca’s works owned by,Brew¬ 
ster likewise find place in this case, together with a copy of 
the first edition of “Mourt’s Relation,” written in Plymouth 
in 1621 and published in London in 1622. At the east end of 
the library is a case in which, among other books and man¬ 
uscripts of great interest, are Eliot’s Indian Bible, of which it 
is believed there are now no more than four copies extant; 
Breeches’ Bible, 1599; Indian vocabulary by Josiah Cotton; 
and a Dutch Bible. The fine old table in the library, built of 
massive English oak, was formerly the property of Gov. 
Edward Winslow. 

From the office a flight of stairs conducts to the basement, 
where all desired conveniences for visitors will be found. In 


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the lower hall is an interesting museum of articles, which 
have been separated from the Pilgrim collection, and as per¬ 
taining to ancient days in many instances, or as curiosities, 
will well repay examination. Among them is the frame of the 
“Sparrowhawk,” wrecked on Cape Cod in 1626, her company 
finding refuge and assistance at Plymouth. 


The Court House. 

“Though justice be thy plea, consider this,— 

That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.” 

T our right hand, soon after leaving Pilgrim 
Hall, we see a large building with a handsome 
facade, standing a little back from the street, and 
fronted by a small park. This is the County 
Court House, erected in 1820, and remodeled in 
1857. It is one of the finest buildings of the kind in the State, 




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and the judges of the different courts give a precedence in 
point of beauty, convenience, etc., over all they visit. It has. 
two entrances. The northerly one leads to a corridor, from 
which is the stairway to the large court room above; admit¬ 
tance to witness rooms and the Third District Court. The 
southerly entrance is to a corridor paved with Vermont mar¬ 
ble, and from which leads a flight of stairs for the court, the 
bar, officers and jurymen, main court room and Law library- 
On the left, below, is the room of the Clerk of Courts, with the 
room of the County Treasurer opposite; beyond are rooms for 
various uses together with that of the County Commissioners. 


The New Registry Building. 

PPOSITE the Court House, on Russell Street, 
in 1904, the County erected a very fine and con¬ 
veniently appointed fire-proof building for the 
Probate Court and Registry of Deeds. The lat¬ 
ter is on the lower floor, with a large hall for 
the records and necessary desks and tables to facilitate the 
examination of the books. There are also commodious rooms 
for the Register and his assistants and the corps of recorders. 

In the Registry of Deeds are the earliest records of Plym¬ 
outh Colony, in the handwriting of the men who are now 
held in reverence the world over for their courage in braving 
the perils of an unknown sea and an equally unknown shore, 
to face the dangers of savage men and savage beasts, in their 
constancy to what they believed to be their duty, and for 
planting on this spot the great principles of a government by 
the people,— 

“A church without a bishop, 

A state without a king.” 



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Here is their writing, some of it quaint and crabbed, some 
fair and legible. Here, on these very pages, rested the hands, 
fresh from handling the sword and the musket, or the peace¬ 
ful implements of husbandry, of Bradford and Brewster and 
Standish and others of that heroic band. Here is the original 
laying-out of the first street,—Leyden Street. Here is the 


THE NEW REGISTRY BUILDING 

plan of the plots of ground first assigned for yearly use, which 
they called, in the tinge of the Dutch tongue they had 
acquired in their long residence in Holland, “meersteads.” 
Here are the simple and yet wise rules—laws they can hardly 
yet be called—laid down for the government of the infant* col¬ 
ony. 

Here is the will of Standish; the order establishing jury 
trial, in Gov. Bradford’s writing; the order for the first cus- 



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toms laws; the division of cattle into lots, one cow being di¬ 
vided into thirteen lots. It was four years after the Landing 
before any domestic cattle were brought over, and in order to 
equalize them they were divided into lots, each family having 
one. It must have been a pretty nice affair to divide the milk 
of one cow among thirteen parties, to satisfy all. 

Here also is the original patent to the company from the 
Earl of Warwick, , granted in 1629, with its great wax seal en- 



PILGRIM MEERSTEADS, TOWN BROOK 


graved for the purpose, and the original box in which it came 
from England. Here are signatures, also, of nearly as much 
interest as those of the Pilgrims themselves,—the marks of the 
original proprietors of all these broad fields and forests, whose 
names are represented by signs of bows and tortoises, of rep¬ 
tiles and animals. 

Here are also ancient deeds written in the Indian language, 
as put in form by Eliot and Mayo. The record clerk must 
have had his patience severely taxed when they were copied. 

The Registry of Probate is on the second floor, where with 










the several offices there is a beautiful court room for the Pro¬ 
bate sessions. The filing and registry room is a model for 
convenience in safe keeping and reference to papers concern¬ 
ing estates. 

A handsome lawn lies in the rear of the Court House, and 
near by is the residence of the sheriff of the County and keep¬ 
er of the prison. 



THE PRISON 


Opposite Court Square is the new Memorial Methodist 
Church, a fine building erected in 1885-86, which is an orna¬ 
mental and prominent feature of the locality. 

The building at the right of the church is the Old Colony 
Club, instituted in 1769. Next beyond is Russell Building, in 
which is located the Pilgrim Book-store, where will be found a 
large and varied collection of souvenirs, views of interesting 
localities, books of Pilgrim story and history, post cards and 
mementos of a visit to “Pilgrim Land.” 


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The Prison. 

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs— 

A palace and a prison on each hand.” 

N the rear of the Court House stands the 
County Prison, a substantial brick house, with 
granite trimmings. There are eighty-nine cells, 
the average number of prisoners being about 
sixty-five. The workshop accommodates some 
fifty prisoners, who are kept at some light employment. All 
its appointments are of the most modern character, and in 
charge of the model sheriff of the County, Henry S. Porter. 
This establishment is one of the best penal institutions in the 
State. It may be visited at stated hours on week days on ap¬ 
plication at the sheriff’s room, at the left of the vestibule. At 
this writing, in May, 1908, the County has purchased a large 
farm at the south part of the town, where buildings are being 
erected and prisoners convicted of minor offences will be kept 
at work with the design of making the penal institution self- 
supporting as well as contributing to the health and general 
welfare of offenders detained for short terms. 


The Rock. 

“A rock in the wilderness welcomed our sires 
From bondage far over the dark rolling sea; 

On that holy altar they kindled the fires, 

Jehovah, which glow in our bosoms for thee.” 

ONTINUING our way along Court Street a lit¬ 
tle farther, we come to North Street, at which 
point the name of the main thoroughfare 
changes to Main Street, the business section of 
the town. Turning down North Street, lead¬ 
ing to the water, in a little distance we come to the brow of the 

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NORTH STREET 

































hill. On the left Winslow Street winds northward, and on it 
we see an old mansion, partially hidden by two noble old trees. 
This house was built by Edward Winslow, brother to Gen. 
John Winslow, some time before the Revolution. He had the 
frame got out in England and brought over for this purpose. 
The trees in front were planted by his daughter about 1760. 
Additions were made to the house in 1898, which is now owned 
and occupied by C. L. Willoughby. 

Descending the hill, at our right a short distance, we see a 
beautiful and artistic structure of granite in the shape of a 



WINSLOW HOUSE. BUILT IN 1734 

canopy, supported on four columns, and under this is the Rock, 
now world-famous. The upper portion of this renowned 
boulder, nearly all of that which is now in sight, was for one 
hundred and five years separated from the original Rock, and 
during this long period occupied localities remote from the 
Landing-place. In 1775, during the first fresh enthusiasm of 
the Revolution, in endeavoring to raise the Rock from its bed 


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on the shore, to prevent its being covered by the filling-in of 
a wharf about it. this piece split off. Auguries of the sepa¬ 
ration of the colonies from the mother-country were then 
drawn from the circumstance, and the upper part was 
taken, amidst much rejoicing, to Town Square, where it was 
deposited at the. foot of a liberty pole from which waved a 
flag bearing the motto, “Liberty or death.” It remained there 



CANOPY OVER PLYMOUTH ROCK—COLE’S HILL 

until 1834, when at a celebration of the Fourth of July it was 
carried in procession to Pilgrim Hall, deposited in the front 
area, and inclosed by the iron fence previously mentioned, 
which now protects the “Compact” memorial. Here the sepa¬ 
rated part of the Rock remained forty-six years, its incon¬ 
gruous position, away from the water, not being understood by 
visitors without lengthy explanation. Mr. Stickney, the gen¬ 
tleman by whose liberality the alterations in Pilgrim Hall were 
at this time being made, recognized the impropriety of this 


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condition, and proposed reuniting the parts at the original 
Landing-place. The Pilgrim Society readily acceded to this 
proposition, and accordingly on Monday, Sept. 27, 1880, with¬ 
out ceremony, this part of the Rock was placed beneath the 
Monumental Canopy at the water-side, the reunited pieces, 
after a separation of one hundred and five years, probably now 
presenting much the same appearance as when the Pilgrim 
shallop grazed its side. As to the identity of this Rock, and 
the certainty of its being the very one consecrated by the first 
touch of Pilgrim feet on this shore, there is not the slightest 
loophole for a doubt. Ancient records, now accessible, refer 
to it as an*object of prominence on the shore, before the build¬ 
ing of the wharf about it in the year 1741. Thomas Faunce, 
the elder of the church, who was born in 1646, and died in 
1745, was the son of John Faunce, who came over in the 
“Ann” in 1623. At the age of ninety-five years, hearing that 
the Rock, which from youth he had venerated, was to be dis¬ 
turbed, he visited the locality, related the history of the Rock 
as told him by his father and contemporary Pilgrims, and in* 
the presence of many witnesses declared it to be that upon 
which the Forefathers landed in 1620. Thus it has, been 
pointed out and identified from one generation to another, and 
from the days of the first comers to the present time. Not a 
shadow of distrust rests upon it as being the identical spot 
where the first landing was effected on the shore of Plymouth. 

Only a century and a half have elapsed since Elder Faunce 
gave this personal testimony, and the lives of two or three 
elderly people cover that period, so the evidence is of positive 
rather than traditional character. 

The Rock was originally a solid boulder of about seven 
tons, and undoubtedly of glacial deposit. It is greenish syen¬ 
ite, very hard, and bears high polish when its fragments are 
worked for various purposes. 


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The Landing. 



ET us picture to ourselves the scene on that 
Monday morning, when, after their rest on 
Clark’s Island, they came in their shallop to in¬ 
spect the new country that they had providen¬ 
tially found. The wharves and buildings and 
every trace of civilization vanish. All is wild and unknown. 
Across the harbor comes the boat, every eye anxiously and 
keenly scanning the strange shore to discover 
the presence of human beings, who will be 
sure to be enemies. They 
coast along the shore by cliff 
and lowland, hand on wea¬ 
pon, every sense alert for the 
expected warwhoop and at¬ 
tack. A steep and 
sandy cliff, (Cole’s 
Hill) the base of which 
is washed by the water, 
meets their eye; at its 
foot a great boulder, brought 
from some far-away coast 
by glaciers, in some 
with a flat top, it 
the great clumsy 



long- 

seems 

boat 

shore 


gone age. Oval in form, 
the very place to bring 

up to, as from its crest they can spring to the 
dry-shod, a matter which, after their previous wading in the 
ice-cold water at the Cape, is of no small moment. The shal¬ 
lop is steered to its side; the company steps upon the Rock, 
and the Landing of the Forefathers, now so reverently 
commemorated, is completed. Look along the shore at this 


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day, north or south, and you may see cliffs as Cole’s Hill was 
then, with the mouth of Town Brook near by the Rock, which 
later made a safe little harbor for their boats in the rear of the 
dwellings which they erected on the south side of Leyden 
Street. Divested of romance thrown around it by time, it 
should be remembered that the “Landing” was that of the ex¬ 
ploring party which had coasted around the bay, the “May¬ 
flower” then being in Cape Cod Harbor. 

This party was made up of “ten of their principal men,” ac¬ 
cording to Bradford, whose names, as given in “Mourt’s Re¬ 
lation,” were Captain Standish, Governor Carver, William 
Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John 
Howland, from Leyden; with Richard Warren, Stephen Hop¬ 
kins and Edward Dotey from London, and also two of the Pil¬ 
grim’s seamen, John Allerton and Thomas English. In ad¬ 
dition to these Captain Jones of the “Mayflower” sent three 
of his seamen, with his two mates and pilots named Clarke and 
Coppin. The master gunner of the ship by importunity also 
got leave to accompany them. Thus the shallop contained 
eighteen men, twelve of the “Mayflower” company and six of 
Jones’ men. 

According to “Mourt’s Relation,” the exploring party, hav- 



THE GURNET 


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ing landed from the Rock, “marched also into the land and 
found divers cornfields and little running brooks, a place very 
good for situation. So we returned to our ships again with 
good news to the rest of the people, which did much comfort 
their hearts.” 

The “Mayflower” weighs her anchor, and spreading sail moves 
across the bay. Feeling carefully their way, they pass the 
Gurnet, and navigate along the channel inside the beach, until, 
at the wide bend towards the town just above the present 
Beach wharf, as is believed by those who have studied the 
situation, the anchor is dropped, not to be again disturbed Un¬ 
til the following spring. But the location is not yet settled. 
Some, with the alarm of the recent encounters vividly im¬ 
pressed upon them, think the Island, surrounded by water and 
easily defended, would be a good place. Jones River, sending 
its waters unabridged to meet the waves of the bay, attracts 
the attention of others. “So in the morning, after we had 
called on God for direction, we came to this resolution, to go 
presently ashore again, and to take a better view of two places 
which we thought most fitting for us; for we could not now 
take time for further search or consideration, our victuals be¬ 
ing much spent, especially our beer, and it being now the 19th 
of December. After our landing and visiting the places, so 
well as we could, we came to a conclusion, by most voices, to 
set on a high ground, where there is a great deal of land 
cleared, and hath been planted with corn three or four years 
ago; and there is a very sweet brook runs under the hillside, 
and many delicate springs of as good water as can be drunk, 
and where we may harbor our shallops and boats exceeding 
well; and in this brook fish in their season; on the further side 
of the river also much com ground cleared. In one field is a 
great hill on which we point to make a platform, and plant our 
ordnance, which will command all around about. From 


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thence we may see into the bay, and far out into the sea; and 
we may see thence Cape Cod. Our greatest labor will be 
the fetching of our wood, which is half a quarter of an Eng¬ 
lish mile; but there is enough so far off. What people inhabit 
here we yet know not, for as yet we have seen none. So there 
we made our rendezvous, and a place for some of our peo¬ 
ple, about twenty, resolving in the morning to come all ashore 
and to build houses.” 


Cole’s Hill. 

“Not Winter’s sullen face, 

Not the fierce, tawny race 
In arms arrayed, 

Not hunger shook their faith; 

Not sickness’ baleful breath. 

Not Carver’s early death, 

Their souls dismayed.” 

SCENDING the broad flight of steps that now 
leads to the brow of the hill, and turning to the 
left, we tread upon sacred, hallowed ground. 
Here were buried, in that dark, sad winter in 
which they landed, half of their little band. 
The terrible tale is told concisely by the narrator already 
quoted. “This month (March) thirteen of our number die. 
And in three months past dies half our company—the greatest 
part in the depth of winter, wanting houses and other com¬ 
forts, being afflicted with the scurvy and other diseases which 
their long voyage and unaccommodate condition brought upon 
them, so as there die sometime two or three a day. Of a hun¬ 
dred persons scarce fifty remaining; the living scarce able to 
bury the dead; the well not sufficient to tend the sick, there 
being in their time of greatest distress, but six or seven, who 



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spare no pains to help them.” They buried them on this hill, 
and levelled the graves, and in the spring following planted 
corn above them, that the Indians might not know the extent 
of their great loss. At four different times the remains have 
been discovered. In 1735, in a great rain, the water, rushing 
down Middle street to the harbor, caused a deep gully there, 


r 



THE EXILES 


exposing human remains and washing them into the sea. In 
1855 workmen engaged in digging trenches for the water¬ 
works found parts of five skeletons. The graves were in the 
roadway, about five rods south of the foot of Middle Street. 
One of the skulls was sent to a competent anatomist in 
Boston, and was pronounced to be of the Caucasian race. The 
remains were carefully gathered and placed in a metallic box, 
properly inscribed, and interred on Burial Hill, subsequently 
being deposited in the chamber of the canopy over the Rock, 
at its completion in the year 1867. Again, on the 8th of Oc¬ 
tober, 1883, during grading on the hill, other remains were 
found, which were carefully removed, and afterwards, on the 
20th of November, enclosed in a lead box and re-interred on 








the precise spot of their original burial. Directly over the 
grave a granite slab has been placed by order of the town, 
bearing an appropriate inscription. On the 27th of Novem¬ 
ber, 1883, others still were found which lie undisturbed near 
the last, and their exact resting-place is designated on the 
memorial slab above mentioned. Cole’s Hill has other his¬ 
tories, also. From the first days its position above and com¬ 
manding the harbor led to its being selected as a place of de¬ 
fence. In 1742 the General Court granted a sum of money 
to the town to erect a battery here. In 1775, the old defence 
having gone to decay, a new one was built and manned, and 
continued to be kept up during the war. In 1814 still an¬ 
other fort was thrown up here, and placed in charge of com¬ 
panies of soldiers stationed in the town. 


Leyden Street. 

(Originally named First Street, afterwards in the Records called 
Great and Broad Street ; named Leyden Street in 1823.) 

“There first was heard the welcome strain 
Of axe and hammer, saw and plane.” 

AL.KING around the brow of the hill, 
through Carver .Street, we pass the Universalist 
Church, erected in 1826 on the spot where stood 
the ancient Allyne House, one of the last of its 
architecture to disappear in the colony. 

Standing on this elevation, we can see the reasons for the 
selection of this place for the settlement. There, below us, 
are the waters of “the very sweet brook,” into which the 
“many delicate springs” still continue to run. How sweet 
they must have tasted to the palates of those poor storm- 



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MYLES STANDISH MONUMENT, DUXBURY 



tossed wayfarers,, who for months had been drinking the ship’s 
stale water! Sweet and pure they are now as they were 
then. Then the brook came to the sea in its natural wildness, 
unfettered by bridge or dam. Where it met the waters of 
the ocean was quite a wide estuary, so that before the lower 
bridge was built schooners of considerable size were wintered 
here nearly up to the second bridge. Beyond it is the land 
where there was “much corn land cleared.” Just below the 
large tree on Carver Street they built their first building, a 
“common house.” In 1801, in digging the cellar of the up¬ 
per house opposite the tree, several tools and a plate of iron 
were found, which without doubt were in this house. It was 
about twenty feet square, and thatched. It took fire in the 
roof Jan. 14, 1621, and the thatch was burnt. It was a com¬ 
mon log house, such as is built now by Western pioneers, and 
probably was not used many years. These articles found 
were probably left in it unnoticed when vacated, and only 
came to light when the little colony to whom they were so 
useful had expanded into a great nation. A sign now marks 
this spot. 

“Mourt’s Relation” furnishes us an interesting recorcl:— 

“Thursday, the 28th of December, so many as could went to 
work on the hill, where we purposed to build our platform 
for our ordnance, and which doth command all the plain and 
the bay, and from whence we may see far into the sea, and 
might be easier impaled, having two rows of houses and a 
fair street. So in the afternoon we went to measure out the 
grounds; and first we took notice how many families there 
were, willing all single men that had no wives to join with 
some family, as they thought fit, so that we might build fewer 
houses; which was done, and we reduced them to nineteen 
families. 

“To greater families we allotted larger plots; to every per- 


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son half a pole in breadth and three in length, and so lots 
were cast where every man should lie; which was done and 
staked out,” and this was laying out of Leyden Street. An 
unfinished plan of this street is to be seen on the old records at 
the Court House. 


Plymouth in 1627. 

N 1627, Isaac DeRasieres, an officer from the 
Dutch Colony of New Netherlands, now New 
York, visited Plymouth, and in a letter to Hol¬ 
land sends the following description of the ap¬ 
pearance of the place :— 

“New Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill stretching east 
toward the sea coast, with a broad street about a cannon shot 
of eight hundred [yards] long, leading down the hill, with a 
[street] crossing in the middle, northwards to the rivulet and 
southwards to the land.* The houses are 
constructed of hewn planks, with gar¬ 
dens also enclosed behind and at the sides 
with hewn planks, so that their liouses 
and court-yards are arranged in very 
good order, .with a stockade against a 
sudden attack ; and at the ends of the 
street are three wooden gates. In 
the centre, on the cross street, 
stands the Governor’s house, before 
which is a square enclosure, upon 
—-which four patereroes [steen-stuck- 
pilgrims going to church en] are mounted, so as to flank 
along the streets. Upon the hill they have a large square 

*An error in statement of the points of the compass is here evident. It should be 
“southwards to the rivulet and northwards to the land.” 

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house, with a flat roof, made of thick sawn planks, stayed 
with oak beams, upon the top of which they have six cannons, 
which shoot iron balls of four and five pounds, and command 
the surrounding country.” 


Town Square. 

ALKING up I.eyden Street, we pass on our left 
the church of the Baptist Society, built in 1865 
to replace their old house of worship on Spring 
Street, burned in 1861. .We now enter Town 
Square, shaded by its noble elms, planted in 
1784. On the corner of Main Street a large building was 
built in 1876 by Mayflower Lodge, I. O. O. F., covering the 
spot on which stood the house of William Bradford, so many 
years the Pilgrim governor. It was burned January 10, 1904, 
and the “Governor Bradford Building,” a handsome brick 




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structure with stores and offices took its place. A bronze 
tablet calls attention to the locality. 

Above this is the Congregational Church, known as the 
“Church of the Pilgrimage.” 



THE CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMAGE 


The present building was erected in 1840, and stands very 
near the site of the First Meeting-house in Plymouth, built in 
1638. A tablet on the front of the church bears the following 
inscription:— 

This tablet is inscribed in grateful memory of the Pilgrims and of 
their successors who, at the time of the Unitarian controversy in 1801, 
adhered to the belief of the Fathers, and on the basis of the original 
creed and covenant perpetuated, at great sacrifice, in the Church of 
the Pilgrimage, the evangelical faith and fellowship of the Church of 
Scrooby, Leyden, and the “Mayflower,” organized in England in 1606. 

Opposite is an old'building, now the Town House. This 
was built in 1749 as a court house, the town contributing a 
part of the cost for the privilege of using it. When the 
new court house was built, in 1820, this building was pur¬ 
chased by the town. At the head of the square is the First 
Parish Church, the original church of the Pilgrims. 


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The first “meeting-house,” as the Pilgrims called them, to 
distinguish them from houses of worship of the established 
church, has been proved, by the investigations of Mr. W. T. 
Davis, to have stood on the north side of the square, near the 
spot occupied by the present Governor Bradford building. 
Of this we know but little, except that it was erected in 1638 
(the Forefathers before that time wOrshiooing in the fort on 
the hill), and had a bell. In 1683 a new building was erected, 
not on the same lot, but farther out at the head of the square. 
This was forty-five by forty feet, sixteen feet in the walls, had 
a Gothic roof, diamond window'glass and a bell. In 1744 
still another church was built on or near the same site. This 



CHURCH OF THE FIRST PARISH 

remained until 1830, when a Gothic edifice was erected. This 
stood farther up the hill than the previous one, and was de¬ 
stroyed by fire Nov. 22, 1892. The present stone building 
was completed and dedicated on December 21, 1899, and has 
on its front tablets designating it as the first church. 


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Burial Hill. 

“The Pilgrim Fathers are at rest: 

When Summer's throned on high, 

And the world’s warm breast is in verdure dressed, 

Go, stand on the hill where they lie.” 

EYOND and above Town Square stretches the 
verdant slope consecrated from the earliest 
years of the colony as a place of sepulture. 
Here repose the ashes of those who survived 
the first winter. “In one field a great hill, on 
which we point to make a platform and plant our ordnance, 
which will command all round about. From thence we may 
see into the bay and far into the sea.” Marble tablets mark 
the location of the Old Fort and Watch Tower, while numer- 




gov. Bradford's monument, burtal hill. 
ous stones and monuments, which can easily be deciphered, 
point out resting places of Pilgrims and descendants. 

The marble obelisk in memory of Gov. William Bradford, 
the second governor, with its untranslatable Hebrew text, 


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but said to signify ‘‘Jehovah is our help”; and its Latin in¬ 
scription, freely rendered: “Do not basely relinquish 

what the Fathers with difficulty attained,” erected 
in 1825, is near to us, and around it are numerous stones, 
marking the graves of his descendants. On the south side of 
the Governor’s obelisk is inscribed: 

H I William Bradford of Austerfield Yorkshire England. Was the 
son of William and Alice Bradford He was Governor of Plymouth 
Colony from 1621 to 1633 1635 1637 1639 to 16^3 1645 to 1657 

On the north side: 

Under this stone rest the ashes of William Bradford a zealous Pur¬ 
itan & sincere Christian Gov. of Ply. Col. from 1621 to 1657, (the year 
he died) aged 69, except 5 yrs. which he declined. 

A little back, on a path to the rear entrance to the 
hill, is the oldest stone in the cemetery. It must be 
remembered that for many years the colonists had 
far other cares, and many other uses for their little 
savings, than to provide stones to mark their graves. 
These had to be imported from England at much 
cost, and consequently it was some years before any were able 
to afford the expense. The oldest stone is that to the mem¬ 
ory of Edward Gray, 1681. Mr. Gray was a merchant, and 
one of the wealthiest men in the colony. Near the head of 
this path is a stone to William Crowe, 1683-84. Near by is 
one to Thomas Clarke, 1697, erroneously reported to have been 
the mate of the “Mayflower,” but who came in the “Ann,” in 
1623. Clark’s Island, supposed bv many to have been named 
for Thomas Clark, received its name from John Clark, now 
known to have been the mate of the “Mayflower.” Beside 
the grave of Thomas Clark is that of his son, Nathaniel, who 
was one of the councillors of Sir Edmund Andros, Governor 
of New England. Other old stones are those of Mrs. Han¬ 
nah Clark, 1697; and John Cotton, 1699. These are all the 


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original stones bearing dates in the seventeenth century. There 
are some with dates of that century which have been erected 
since, by descendants, including the monument to Gov. Brad¬ 
ford, before alluded to; the monument to Robert Cushman; 


GRAVE OF THOMAS CLARK 


and the stone over the remains of John Howland. The in¬ 
scription on the latter stone reads as follows:— 

Here ended the Pilgrimage of JOHN HOWLAND who died Feb¬ 
ruary 23, 167 2-3, aged above 80 years. He married Elizabeth 
daughter of JOHN TILLEY who came with him in the Mayflower 
Dec. 1620. From them are descended a numerous posterity. 

“Hee was a godly man and an ancient professor in the wayes of 
Christ. Hee was one of the first comers into this land and was the 
last man that was left of those that came over in the Shipp called the 
Mayflower that lived in Plymouth.”—[Plymouth Records. 

Near the Bradford monument are the graves of his family. 
The face of the stone at the grave of his son, Major William 


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Bradford, shelled off in 1876-77, but the inscription has since 
been retraced. The cut following is reproduced from a view 
taken of the original, and is an exact facsimile — 


GRAVE OF WILLIAM BRADFORD 

Here lyes ye body of ye honourable Major William Bradford, who 
expired Feb’y ye 20th, 1703-4, age 79 years. 

He lived long, but still was doing good, 

And in his country’s service lost much blood, 

After a life well spent, he’s now at rest, 

His very name and memory is blest. 

At the grave of another son the headstone reads as follows: 

Here lyes interred ve body of Mr. Joseph Bradford, son of the late 
Honorable William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony, 
who departed this life July the 10th, 1715, in the eighty-fifth year of 
his age. 


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The following are some of the inscriptions of the older 
stones:— 

Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Hannah Sturtevant, aged about sixty- 
four years. Dec. in March, 1708-9. 

Here lyes buried the body of Mr. Thomas Faunce, ruling elder of 
the First Church of Christ in Plymouth. Deceased Feb’y 27, 1745, in 
the ninety-ninth year of his age. 

The fathers—where are they? 

Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 

[Elder Faunce was the last who held the office of ruling 
elder in the church. He was contemporary with many of the 
first comers, and from him comes piuch of the information we 
possess about the localities now venerated.] 


THE "NAMELESS NOBLEMAN.” 
GRAVE OF DR. FRANCIS LE BARON, 


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The epitaphs in old graveyards possess much interest to the 
lovers of the quaint and curious, and this first cemetery of 
New England is not without its attractions of that kind. The 
following are some of the most interesting:— 

This stone is erected to the memory of that unbiased judge, faithful 
officer, sincere friend, and honest man, Col. Isaac Lothrop, who re¬ 
signed his life on the 26th day of April, 1750, in the forty-third year 
of his age. 

Had Virtue’s charms the power to save 
Its faithful votaries from the grave, 

This stone had ne’er possessed the fame 
Of being marked with Lothrop’s name. 

A row of stones on the top of the hill, near the marble tab¬ 
let marking the locality of the Watch Tower, is raised to the 
memory of the ministers of the First Parish. Back of these 
is the Judson lot, where the sculptor’s chisel has perpetuated 
the remembrance of Rev. Adoniram Judson, the celebrated 
missionary to Burmah, whose body was committed to the 
keeping of Old Ocean. On the westerly side of the hill is 
a monument erected by Stephen Gale, of Portland* Me.:— 

To the memory of seventy-two seamen, who perished in Plymouth 
Harbor, on the 26th and 27th days of December, 1778, on board the 
private armed brig, General Arnold, of twenty guns, James Magee, 
of Boston, Commander : sixty of whom were buried in this spot. 

About midway on the easterly slope, a little to the north 
of the main path up the hill, on the stone to a child aged one 
month:— 

He glanced into our world to see 
A sample of our miserie. 

On a stone a little farther north, to the memory of four 
children, aged respectively thirty-six, twenty-one, seventeen 
and two years :— 

Stop, traveller, and shed a tear 
Upon the fate of children dear. 


On the path towards the schoolhouse on a stone to a woman 
with an infant child by her side:— 

Come view the seen, ’twill fill you with surprise, 

Behold the loveliest form in nature dies; 

At noon she flourished, blooming, fair and gay; 

At evening an extended corpse she lay. 

Near the entrance to this path is the grave of a Revolution¬ 
ary soldier, Capt. Jacob Taylor; died 1788:— 

Through life he braved her foe, if great or small, 

And marched out foremust at his country’s call. 







On this path is the grave of Joseph Bartlett, who died in 

1703:— 

Thousands of years after blest Abel’s fall, 

’Twas said of him, being dead he speaketh yet; 

From silent grave methinks I hear a call:— 

Pray, fellow mortals, don’t your death forget. 

You that your eyes cast on this grave, 

Know you a dying time must have. 

Near the same place is a curious stone, to the memory of 
John Cotton:— 

Here lyes interred three children, viz., three sons of Rev. Mr. John 
Cotton, who died in the work of the gospel ministry at 
Charlestown, South Carolina, Sept. 

ye 18th, 1869, where he had great success, and seven sons of Josiah 
Cotton, Esq., who died in their infancy. 

On the southerly slope of the hill, near a little pine grove, is 
a stone to a child:— 

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set 
on edge. 

On a stone to the memory of Thomas Jackson, died in 
1794 :— 

The spider’s most attenuated thread 
Is cord, is cable, to man’s tender tie. 

Martha Cotton, 1796. 

Many years I lived, 

Many painful scenes I passed, 

Till God at last 
Called me home. 

In a long lot, enclosed with an iron fence: — 

F. W. Jackson, obit. M. C. H. 23, 1797, 1 yr, 7 dys, 

Heav’n knows what man 
He might have made. But we 
He died a most rare boy. 


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Fannie Crombie, 

As young as beautiful! and soft as young, 

And gay as soft! and innocent as gay. 

On the path by the fence in the rear of the hill:— 

The father and the children dead, 

We hope to Heaven their souls have fled. 

The widow now alone is left, 

Of all her family bereft. 

May she now put her trust in God, 

To heal the wound made by His rod. 

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On a stone raised to the memory of a child:— 

He listened for a while to hear 
Our mortal griefs; then tuned his ear 
To angel harps and songs, and cried 
To. join their notes celestial, sigh’d and died. 

A little farther on in this path is the stone to Tabitha Plas- 
ket, 1807; the epitaph on which, written by herself, breathes 
such a spirit of defiance that it attracts much attention:—- 

Adieu, vain world, I’ve seen enough of thee; 

And I am careless what thou say’st of me; 

Thy smiles I wish not, 

Nor thy frowns I fear, 

I am now at rest, my head lies quiet here. 

Mrs. Plasket, in her widowhood, taught a private school 
for small children, at the same time, as was the custom of her 
day, doing her spinning. Her mode of punishment was to 
pass skeins of yarn under the arms of the little culprits, and 
hang them upon nails. A suspended row was a ludicrous 
sight. 

Mr. Joseph Plasket (husband of Tabitha) died in 1794, at 
the age of forty-eight years. The widow wrote his epitaph 
as follows:— 

All you that doth behold my stone, 

Consider how soon I was gone. 

Death does not always warning give, 

Therefore be careful how you live. 

Repent in time, no time delay, 

I in my prime was called away. 

Nearly opposite this is one on a very young child:— 

The babe that’s caught from womb and breast, 

Claim right to sing above the rest, 

Because they found the happy shore 
They never saw or sought before. 


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As this path comes out on the brow of the hill, near a 
white fence, is a stone to Elizabeth Savery, 1831:— 

Remember me as you pass by, 

As you are now, so once was I; 

As I am now, so you will be, 

Therefore prepare to follow me. 

A little from the path up Burial Hill, to the left, just be¬ 
low the Cushman monument, a marble tablet marks the spot 
where the fort of the little colony was situated, quite a por¬ 
tion of its outline still being distinct, particularly at the easter¬ 
ly corner. We can see at once with what sagacity the site 
was chosen, undoubtedly by Standish. It commanded Ley¬ 
den Street, and the approaches from the brook over which 
the Indians came. 



THE OLD FORT AND FIRST MEETING-HOUSE, l62I 


Standing here, we have a view of the southern part of the 
town. The blue heights of Manomet Hills shut in the hori¬ 
zon. Beyond them lies the little hamlet of South Plymouth, 
a rural village with summer hotels, the Ardmore Inn and Idle- 
wild hotels of considerable celebrity, especially among sports- 


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men. On this side is the village of Chiltonville, with its 
churches and factories. Far down to the shore, near the head 
of the Beach, is the Hotel Pilgrim. This hotel has long 
been known as one of the finest summer resorts on the coast. 
Nearer lies the southerly portion of the main part of the town, 
just separated by the brook. Crossing the stream, or pond, 
by the Main street extension and concrete bridge built in 
1907-8, one reaches the common, laid out very early as a 
“Training Green/’ the name it bears today. It is an at¬ 
tractive square surrounded with large elm trees, and in its 
centre stands the monument erected in 1869 to the memory 
of the Soldiers and Sailors of Plymouth, who gave their lives 
for the country in the Civil War. Before the Pilgrims came 
the Green was an Indian cornfield. 



MANOMET BLUFFS 


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Watson’s Hill. 

BOVE the Green is Watson’s Hill, now covered 
with houses. This was the “Cantauganteest” 
of the Indians, one of their favorite resorts, 
where they had their summer camps, and on the 
level below planted their corn. It is famous 
as the opening scene of the treaty with Massasoit. Gov. 
Bradford had a tract of land assigned him here on which to 



Burial Hill. Town Brook. Watson’s Hill. 

THE TOWN FROM THE SOUTH 


raise corn, and to this day portions of the hill remain in the 
Bradford name and others of direct descent from him. 


The Watch Tower. 

A little to the north of the site of the old fort another tablet 
marks the place of the brick watch tower erected in 1643. The 
locality of this tower is indicated by four stone posts set in 
the ground to mark its corners. The brick foundation is still 
there, about-a foot below the surface, and the old hearth- 





stone on which the Pilgrims built their watch fires still lies 
where they placed it, on the southerly side of the enclosure. 
The location of the tower was discovered many years ago in 
digging a grave, when the sexton came upon the foundation. 
The town records of Sept. 23, 1643, have the following entry 
in regard to it: “It is agreed upon by the whole that there 
shall be a watch house forthwith, built of brick, and that Mr. 
Grimes will sell us the brick at eleven shillings a thousand.” 



SITE OF THE WATCH TOWER, 1643 

Back of this is seen the lot of Rev. Adoniram Judson, the famous 
missionary to Burmah. 

This is the first mention of brick in the records of the colony, 
and it is to be presumed that this marks about the time of the 
first brickyard. The cause of the tower being built was 
probably the threatenings of the Indians, which resulted in 
the Narrangansett war. 

Still later, in 1676, another fortification was erected on the 
hill, it is presumable covering the same area, enclosing a hun¬ 
dred feet square, “with palisadoes ten and a half feet high, 

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and three pieces of ordnance planted on it.” The town agreed 
with Nathaniel South worth to build a watch house, “which is 
to be sixteen feet in length, twelve feet in breadth, and eight 
feet stud, to be walled with boards, and to have two floors, the 
upper floor to be six feet above the tower, to batten the walls 
and make a small pair of stairs in it, the roof to be covered 
with shingles,and a chimney to be built in it. For the said 
work he is to have eight pounds, either in money or other 
pay equivalent.” This being only thirty-two years after the 
building of the brick tower, it would seem as if the latter 
could hardly have fallen or been taken down, and it is possi¬ 
ble, if not probable, that the wooden watch tower was built 
upon the old brick one; but of this we can only conjecture. 
This was in the period of King Philip’s war. From here 
might have been seen the blaze of the houses at Eel River (now 
Chiltonville), and the terrible war-whoop almost heard as the 
savages burst upon the little hamlet, near Bramhafl’s corner 
on that peaceful Sabbath when they left eleven dead bodies 
and smokino- ruins to mark their savage onslaught. 



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The Harbor. 

E have, from the easterly brow of Burial Hill, 
a beautiful picture of the harbor and its sur¬ 
roundings. Below us the ground slopes to the 
water, cut into terrace below terrace, with the 
buildings upon them. At its foot are the 
wharves and harbor, and beyond is the Beach, near which the 
“Mayflower” swung at her anchors. Manomet is the range 
of misty blue hills stretching into the bay on the right. 
Kingston and Duxburv, with Captain’s Hill, are on the left, 
and far out Clark’s Island, Saquish and the Gurnet,.with the 




GFF BEACH POINT 

Captain’s Hill, Duxbury, in the distance. 


thin, sandy strip of beach joining the latter headlands. On 
the Gurnet, is Fort Andrew, and at Saquish is Fort Standish, 
both earthworks built by the Government during the civil war 
of 1861—65, but now dismantled and unused. The sites are 
the property of the United States. The Gurnet, it is said, 
takes its name from a somewhat similar promontory in the 
English channel, near Plymouth, England. On it are lo¬ 
cated a United States life-saving station and lighthouse. Sa- 


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quish is an Indian .word signifying- an abundance of clams. 
Clark’s Island was named from the mate of the “Mayflower,” 
who commanded the shallop on the expedition when the island 
was discovered. 

The following statistics were furnished by Capt. A. M. Har¬ 
rison from the United States Survey of 1853-57 : From the 
shore end of Long Wharf, in a straight line, to Gurnet Light, 
the distance is four and seven-sixteenths statute miles, or, 
three and seven-eighths nautical miles. The length of Plym¬ 
outh Beach, from the foot of Manomet Hills to the beacon on 
extreme point, is three and five-sixteenths statute miles, or two 
and seven-eights nautical miles. The length of the Beach, 
from its junction with the mainland to the beacon, is two and 
five-eighths statute miles, or two and one-fourth nautical 
miles. 


Voyage of the Mayflower Shallop. 

ROM here we can trace the whole course of that 
expedition which started on its voyage of discov¬ 
ery from the “Mayflower” in Provincetown 
Harbor, directly opposite us across the bay. 
Coasting along the inside of Cape Cod at the 
right, its sandy shore hidden by distance from our sight, some 
of the exploring party on foot, forcing their way through the 
tangled wilderness, sometimes wading in half frozen water 
through the surf or across brooks, they slowly make their way. 
Constantly on the alert, and two or three times attacked 
and beating off their assailants, the shallop with 
her company nears Manomet headland. And now it be¬ 
gan to snow and rain and the wind to blow and the seas to 
rise. Now the hinge of the rudder breaks, and oars are 



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got out to steer with. Master Coppin, the pilot, bids them 
to be of good cheer, for he sees the harbor which he had 
promised them. Across the bay they steer, keeping on a 
press of sail to make the desired harbor before nightfall, 
when crash goes the mast, broken into three pieces, and the 



THE MAYFLOWER IN PLYMOUTH HARBOR 

shallop is near being wrecked. Now the flood-tide takes them 
and bears them in past the Gurnet nose, and Master Coppin, 
finding himself in a strange place that he had never seen be¬ 
fore, throws up his hands and exclaims: “The Lord be mer¬ 
ciful to us, I never saw this place before/'* and in his terror 
would have run the boat on shore, “in a cove full of breakers/’ 
between the Gurnet and Saquish; “but a lusty seaman which 
steered bade those that rowed, if they were men, about with 
her, or else they were all cast away.” The short twilight of 
the winter day had faded into darkness, as the storm-tossed 
and dispirited company found themselves “under the lee of a 
small island.” There it is before us, the third highland to 
the left— the first being the Gurnet and the second Saquish. 
They landed, and kept their watch that night in a rain. Gov. 
Bradford, in his history, gives us a few more particulars: “In 


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the morning they find the place to be a small island secure 
from Indians. And this being the last day of the week, they 
here dry their stuff, fix their pieces, rest themselves, return 
God thanks for their many deliverances and here 
the next day keep their Christian Sabbath.” Tradition says 
that from a large rock with a flat top that is there now, 
^earing the inscription, ‘‘On the Sabbath day wee rested,” the 
first prayer ascended on this shore; and there, for the first 
time in New England, praise and thanks were given to that 
watchful Providence that had guided and guarded them. The 
next day, Monday, they sailed up to the shore below us, and, 
stepping on Plymouth Rock, made the exploration which ul¬ 
timately determined them to fix upon this place for their 
plantation. 



clark's island 
View from the Saquish. 




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Town Brook. 

“And there is a very sweet brooke runnes under the hillside, and 
many delicate springs of as good water as can be drunke.” 

—Gov. Bradford. 

T the foot of Burial Hill, on the south side, the 
Town Brook flows through the centre of the 
town, “vexed in all its seaward course by 
bridges, dams and mills.” Along the banks the 
Pilgrims erected their first dwelling-houses and 
brought water from “the very sweet brook’’ be¬ 
low, into which the “many delicate springs” still continue to 
run. It is a favorite resort for artists who delight in sketch¬ 
ing the picturesque scenery and ancient architecture. One 
of these springs of deliciously clear cold water, is forced up 
from near the brook by electric power, and runs out in a 
fountain at the corner of Leyden and Main Streets, on land 
once owned by Elder Brewster. During the summer many 
thousands,are here refreshed, and while citizens much enjoy 
the cooling draughts, visitors highly commend the public pro¬ 
vision which enables them to partake of the waters # of a 
spring, from which the Pilgrims themselves daily obtained 
their supply “of as good water as can be drunke.” 

The stream proceeds from Billington Sea, about two miles 
distant from the town. It furnishes a valuable water power 
at the present, and in the days of the Pilgrims, and for nearly 
two centuries after, it abounded with alewives almost at their 
doors, affording an important resource for the supply of their 
wants. The tide flowed for some distance up this stream and 
formed a convenient basin for the reception and safe shelter of 
the shallops and other vessels employed in their earlier enter¬ 
prises of fishing and traffic. Over this brook from Watson’s 
hill where Market street crosses it, came the great sachem 



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Massasoit, with twenty of his braves, on a visit to the Pil¬ 
grims, when was concluded that treaty which during its con¬ 
tinuance of forty years conduced so effectually to the safety 
and permanence of the colony. 

Morton Park. 

NE of the most attractive spots in old Plymouth, 
and one that the casual visitor does not always 
see. is* Morton Park. Lying a little more than a 
mile from the town centre, it makes a convenient 
pleasure-ground for Plymouth people, and the 
beauty of the place is such as to attract all lovers of wood¬ 
land scenery. Nature has done her most to make the park 


ENTRANCE TO MORTON PARK 

charming, and man has very wisely made little attempt to 
improve it. Nearly 200 acres there are, consisting of deep 
woods and open country, hills and valleys, brooks and ponds. 
The park nearly surrounds Little Pond, consisting of forty 

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BILLINCTON SF.A, MORTON PARK 


iel Morton, Esq., one of its principal donors, who during his 
life made it his special pride, and gave his money generously 
for its improvement. 


The Town. 

Y the census of 1905 the population of Plym¬ 
outh was 11,119. It is now, in 1908, estimated 
to be nearing 14.000, and the town is one of the 
most rapidly growing and prosperous in the 
state. The total valuation in 1908 was $10,277,- 
443, of which $7,695,400 was real estate, and $2,582,043 per- 

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acres, and borders for a mile on the historic Billington Sea, 
which has 308 acres. Roads and paths have been laid out 
in romantic situations, and some trees planted, but otherwise 
the wild woodland cleared of underbrush remains in its natur¬ 
al state. In 1889 the land was given to the town by several 
public-spirited citizens, and the park was named for Nathan- 



sonal. The number of polls assessed was 3,199, and the 
acres of land assessed 50,267. 

Few towns are better provided with city conveniences. A 
system of public works, introduced in 1855, supplies the in¬ 
habitants with pure water from the great ponds that lie in 
the woods a few miles south of the town. * Excellent drain¬ 
age is secured by an extensive system of sewers, the main 
pipe discharging in deep water of the harbor 1500 feet from 
the shore. The main thoroughfares are lighted by electricity, 
and both electricity and gas are in use for illuminants in pub¬ 
lic buildings, stores, factories and dwellings. Electric street 
railways furnish connection with the adjacent towns, and are 
a source of much pleasure in summer for trolley trips to the 
beaches, hotels and suburbs. 



PLYMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL 


The town has a public library incorporated in 1880, con¬ 
taining nearly 16,000 volumes and a valuable collection of 4,000 
large photographs from the finest art subjects in European 
galleries. Its schools rank among the best in the State, aijd 
its high-school building, erected in 1891 at a cost of forty 
thousand dollars, has accommodation for over two hundred 
pupils. In its religious denominations holding regular services 
are represented the Unitarian, Congregational, Baptist, Uni- 
versalist, Methodist, Catholic, Episcopal, Advent, German 

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Lutheran, Christian Scientist, Spiritualist, Latter Day Saints 
and Jewish faiths. 

The town contains five banking institutions,—the Old Colony 
and the Plymouth National banks, the Plymouth, the Plym¬ 
outh Five-Cents and the Plymouth Co-operative savings 
banks, occupying two fine brick buildings on Main Street. 
There are six excellent hotels within the town limits, three of 



plvmouth public library. 

them well known as summer resorts. To the credit of the 
town be it said, that its citizens are so law abiding that only 
a small but very effective uniformed police force is required, 
and there is hardly occasion of arrest for any serious offense. 

Plymouth has good streets, her principal thoroughfares be¬ 
ing macadamized. The sidewalks throughout the centre of 
the town are concreted. Her stores are kept abreast of the 
times, and two weekly newspapers, the Old Colony Memorial 
and Plvmouth Observer chronicle the happenings of local and 
neighborhood interest. 

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The fire department has three steamers, two chemicals, two 
ladder trucks, four hose wagons and reels; is supplied with 
horses and stations; a first class alartn system, and is run in 
regular city style. The military establishment consists of a 
fine armory which cost $30,000, in which the “Standish 
Guards,” chartered in 1818, have their quarters. The 
“Guards” are one of the best companies in the dandy Fifth 
Regiment, and their past history in the Civil and Spanish 
wars is highly creditable. They were “Minute Men of 1861,” 
responding under Capt. Chas. C. Doten on the first call for 
troops the morning of April 16, 1861, and with their regi¬ 
ment, then the Third Massachusetts, were the very first of any 
troops either National or Volunteer to go within the rebel lines 
as they did when on the gunboat “Pawnee” they ran the rebel 
batteries and destroyed the Norfolk navy yard, and rescued the 
frigate “Cumberland” on the night of April. 20, 1861. In the 
Spanish war, commanded by Capt. W. C. Butler, they were in 
camp in the South, but the regiment, the Fifth, was not sent 
to Cuba, while all the while in instant readiness for active 
service. 


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ALONG SHORE FROM STEPHEN’S POINT 
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Its Industries. 

HE character of Plymouth’s industrial life has 
entirely changed within a half century. With¬ 
in the memory of men now living, the time was 
when the town boasted a fleet of seventy-five 
fishermen, and enjoyed prestige as a fishing oort. 
In common with other seaport towns of New England, this 
industry has departed, but thriving manufactories have risen 
on the ruins of her maritime glory. 

Plymouth’s manufacturing industries show great diversity 
of character, and are exceedingly prosperous. The yearly 
value of their total product is not far from eighteen million 
dollars. The great cordage works at North Plymouth are 
the very largest concern of the kind in the world, employing 
nearly 2,000 hands, and have built up a flourishing corpora¬ 
tion hamlet in that quarter of the town. There are three 
large mills engaged in the production of woolen and worsted 
cloths. Three extensive factories keep many of Plymouth’s 
inhabitants busily employed in the manufacture of tacks, nails, 
and rivets., An iron foundry does a large business in stove¬ 
making, and at Chiltonville there is a big branch plant of 
the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company, under Plym¬ 
outh management, which supports quite a village of its o,wn. 
Besides these there are manufactories of bedstead joints, in¬ 
sulated wire for electrical purposes, products of zinc and cop¬ 
per, saw-gummers and swages, barrels, boxes, kegs and kits, 
and numerous smaller enterprises. One electric light and 
power company furnishes power for several of these establish¬ 
ments, besides sending current to Kingston and Duxbury for 
domestic and street lighting. It also lights Plymouth, hav¬ 
ing in its circuit of the three towns, nearly 25 miles of wire. 
Another large electric plant is that of the Brockton and 



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Plymouth Street Railway, which also furnishes power to the 
Plymouth and Sandwich Street Railway. 

Plymouth’s manufactured products bear an excellent name 
in the markets of the world, her cordage, and woolen goods 
being particularly well known as of the very best character. 

Of late years many Plymouth residents have engaged in 
cranberry culture on an extensive scale, and their ventures 
have been exceedingly profitable. In 1907 there were 1,000 
acres of bog under cultivation in Plymouth, yielding for that 
season a crop of 40,000 barrels, which sold for an aggregate 
of about $250,000. Together with the adjoining town of 
Carver, which is still more extensively engaged in cranberry 
raising, the two towns produce more than one-fourth of the 
cranberries grown in the entire United States. An industry, 
which is of large proportions, is the raising of brook trout and 
spawn for the markets. Plymouth is also the principal 
United States government station where cod fish spkwn is 
obtained for the hatchery at Wood’s Hole, 200,000,expo eggs 
being obtained each winter from the fishing fleet by a steamer 
kept here for the purpose. 


Old Houses. 

LYMOUTH contains many old buildings ante¬ 
dating the Revolution, but they have been re¬ 
paired and modernized so that they do not have 
that appearance at present, and visitors are often 
disappointed in not finding the antique structures 
which they expected. Old people, now living, can remember 
when several of these buildings had ‘'Dutch ovens” and chim¬ 
neys built on the outside. 

The oldest house standing in 1901 was the Doten house on 

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Sandwich Street, about half a mile from the centre of the 
town. It was built in 1660 by William Harlow, and in 1773 
was owned by Nathaniel Doten, descending to his heirs from 
whom it passed to a non-resident who intended to make the 
property his summer residence, and accordingly demolished 
the house, but has not yet erected another on the site. Among 
other old houses still remaining are the Leach house, on Sum- 



THE OLDEST HOUSE IN PLYMOUTH, WM. CROWE HOUSE, 1664 

mer Street, built in 1679; the Howland house, 1666; Cole’s 
blacksmith shop, 1684; the Shurtleff house, 1698; the Crowe 
house, 1664; and the William Harlow house, built in 1677, 
partly of the material of the old fort on Burial Hill. 

The Winslow house on North Street is a good example of 
the colonial style of architecture. It was built about 1754 by 
Edward Winslow, who was a great-grandson of Gov. Wins¬ 
low, of the colony. He purchased the land from Consider, a 
grandson of John Howland, who was one of the “Mayflower” 
passengers. It is now owned and occupied by C. L. Wil¬ 
loughby, who has made considerable additions to the house. 


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In this house then owned by her father, Charles Jackson, Miss 
Lydia Jackson was married to the famed scholar and philoso¬ 
pher, Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the corner of Main and 
North streets, built in 1730, still stands the house of General 



WILLIAM HARLOW HOUSE, 1677. 

Built of timber from old Burial Hill Fort. 

John Winslow, who removed the Acadians from Nova Scotia. 
This was also the home of James Warren, President of the 
Provincial Congress. 


As a Summer Resort. 

Viewed simply as the landing-place of the Pilgrims, Plym¬ 
outh has an interest which attaches to no other spot in Ameri¬ 
ca. The number of visitors from all parts of the country in¬ 
creases with each year, as historic sentiment becomes more 
widespread and facilities for travel are multiplied. It is es¬ 
timated that sixty thousand strangers visit the town every 
summer. It is not alone on account of its history that Plym¬ 
outh is attractive to the visitor. The beauty of its scenery, 


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the unusual healthfulness of its air, the purity of its water, 
the variety of its drives, the number of ponds within its limits, 
and its unbounded resources for the sportsman and pleasure- 
seeker, have been more widely recognized with each recurring 
season. It combines the most interesting features of town 
and country, and has direct connection with Boston by the Old 
Colony Railroad built in 1840, and now leased by the New 
York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. Co.; also directly with 
Providence and New York, by the Fall River Line and the 
Plymouth & Middleborough Railroad. The distance from 
Boston is thirty-seven miles by rail, with frequent trains; and 
during the summer months a daily steamer capable of carrying 
2,000 passengers is on the route between the two places, the 
sail being a delightful one. 

As a summer resort for health and pleasure, Plymouth has 
great attractions. Plymouth and the adjoining towns of 
Kingston and Duxbury nearly encircle a harbor of almost un¬ 
rivalled beauty, a source of endless pleasure to the summer 
visitor. There are good sand beaches for surf and smooth- 
water sea bathing. In the Bay are opportunities for fine 
sport in the mackerel season, and a haul of sea-perch, tautog, 
cod or haddock is always to be had. Plymouth extends over 
a territory about eighteen miles long, and from five to nine 
miles wide; and beyond the settled parts of the town is a suc¬ 
cession of wooded hills. This large tract is interspersed with 
hundreds of large and small ponds (or lakes) stdcked with 
fish, furnishing limitless fields for the lover of nature, or 
seeker of pleasure, in walking, riding, fishing or hunting. 




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The Compact. 

Signed in the Cabin of the “Mayflower/" Nov. iith, 
Old Style, Nov. 2ist, New Style, 1620. 

“In the name of God, amen, we whose names are underwrit¬ 
ten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King 
James, by the grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc and Ire¬ 
land king, defender of the faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for 
the glorie of God, and advancemente of the Christian faith, 
and honor of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the 
first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these 
presents solemnly and mutualv in the presence of God, and one 
of' another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a 
civill body politick, for our better ordering and preservation 
and furtherence of the ends aforesaid; and by vertue hereof 
to enacte, constitute and frame such just and equall laws, or- 
denances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, 
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the general 
good of the colonie, unto which we promise all due submission 
and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto sub¬ 
scribed our names at Cap-Codd the 11 of November, in the 
year of the raigne of our soveraigne lord, King Janies of Eng¬ 
land, Franc and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the 
fifty-fourth, ANo Dom 1620.” 


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Members of the 44 Mayflower ” Company 

Arriving in Cape Cod Harbor. 


John Carver. 

Katherine Carver, his wife. 
Desire Minter. 

John Howland. 

Rover Wilder. 

William Latham. 

Maid Servant. 

Jasper More. 

William Brewster. 

Mary Brewster, his wife. 
Love Brewster. 

Wrestling Brewster. 

Richard More. 

His brother. 

Edward Winslow. 

Elizabeth Winslow, his wife. 
George Soule. 

Elias Story. 

Ellen More. 

William Bradford. 

Dorothy Bradford, his wife. 

Isaac Allerton. 

Mary Allerton, his wife. 
Bartholomew Allerton. 
Remember Allerton. 

Mary Allerton. 

John Hooke. 

Richard Warren. 

John Billington. 

Eleanor Billington, his wife. 
John Billington. 

Francis Billington. 

Edward Tilley. 

Ann Tilley, his wife. 

Henry Sampson. 

Humility Cooper. 

John Tilley. 

His wife. 

Elizabeth Tilley. 

Francis Cooke. 

John Cooke. 

Thomas Rogers. 

Joseph Rogers. 

Thomas Tinker. 

His wife. 

His son. 

John Rigdale. 

Alice Rigdale, his wife. 

James Chilton. 

His wife. 

Mary Chilton. 

John Crackston. 

John Crackston, Jr. 


Samuel Fuller. 

Myles Standish. 

Rose Standish, his wife. 

Christopher Martin. 

His wife. 

Solomon Power. 

John Langemore. 

William Mullins. 

His wife. 

Joseph Mullins. 

Robert Carter. 

Priscilla Mullins. 

William White. 

Susanna White, his wife. 
Resolved White. 

William Holbeck. 

Edward Thompson. 

Stephen Hopkins. 

Elizabeth Hopkins, his wife. 
Giles Hopkins. 

Constance Hopkins. 
Damaris Hopkins. 

Oceanus Hopkins. 

Edward Doty. 

Edward Leister. 

Edward Fuller. 

His wife. 

Samuel Fuller. 

John Turner. 

His son. 

Another son. 

Francis Eaton. 

Sarah Eaton, his wife. 
Samuel Eaton. 

Moses Fletcher. 

Thomas Williams. 

Digory Priest. 

John Goodman. 

Edmund Margeson. 

Richard Britteridge. 

Richard Clarke. 

Richard Gardiner. 

Gilbert Winslow. 

Peter Browne. 

John Alden. 

Thomas English. 

John Allerton. 

William Trevore. 

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HISTORIC PLYMOUTH 


HE Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, invites your 



inspection of the accompanying lists of views, 
publications, and souvenirs. The photographs are 
from recent negatives of historic places and subjects, 
celebrated in American history, supplemented with 
reproductions of paintings, depicting scenes famous 
in Pilgrim annals. 

The souvenirs are some of our newest produc¬ 
tions, and a selection from the list will be prized for 
its real artistic worth, as well as adding sentiment 
and historic value. 

Everything will be carefully packed and mailed 
promptly to any address on receipt of price. 


A. S. BURBANK, Publisher, 


Pilgrim Bookstore, Plymouth, Massachusetts. 


PILGRIM POST CARDS 


We publish an extensive line of Post Cards in 
sepia, delft, black and white and colors. The list 
covers over two hundred subjects from our own copy¬ 
righted views of places of historic interest in and about 
Plymouth and of famous Pilgrim paintings. A special 
list of our Pilgrim Post Cards will be mailed on re¬ 
quest. 


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Views in and about Plymouth 


Photographs are 5x8 and will be sent unmounted, dull 
finish, unless otherwise requested. Please order by 
number. Price 25 cents each by mail. 

1 Plymouth Rock. 

2 The Canopy over the Rock. 

3 The Canopy and Harbor from Cole’s Hill. 

4 The Canopy and Cole’s Hill, first burial-place 

of the Pilgrims. 

5 Plymouth Harbor as seen from Cole's Hill. 

6 Leyden Street, first street in New England. 

7 Site of the Common House, Leyden Street, first 

house erected by the Pilgrims. 

8 Leyden Street in 1622, showing first or Com¬ 

mon House, Gov. Bradford’s House, and the 
buildings assigned to Brown, Goodman, 
Brewster, Billington, Allerton, Cooke, and 
Winslow. 

9 Town Square, showing Church of the First 

Parish, Town House, formerly the Old Co¬ 
lonial Court House, built in 1749, and Odd 
Fellows’ Block, occupying the site of Gov. 
Bradford’s House. 

10 Old Burial Hill. 

11 Site of the Watch Tower, Burial Hill, erected 

in 1643. View also shows the lot of Rev. 


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Adoniram Judson, the celebrated missionary 
to Burmah. 

12 Site of the Old Fort, Burial Hill, built in 1621 

as a defence against the Indians, and also used 
as a place of worship. 

13 The Old Fort and First Meeting-house, 1621. 

14 Gov. Bradford’s Monument, Burial Hill, show¬ 

ing also the graves of his family. 

15 Grave of Edward Gray, 1681. 

16 Grave of John Howland, 1672. 

17 Grave of Thomas Clarke, 1697. 

18 Cushman Monument. 

19 Grave of Elder Thomas Cushman. 

20 Grave of Dr. Francis Le Barron. 

21 Pilgrim Hall. 

22 Interior of Pilgrim Hall, showing Charles 

Lucy’s famous painting of the Departure 
from Delft Haven, also smaller pictures and 
relics. 

23 Interior of Pilgrim Hall, showing Sargent’s 

painting of the Landing and Weir’s Embar¬ 
kation, also relics and portraits. 

24 Landing of the Pilgrims, painting by Sargent. 

25 The Departure from Delft Haven, painting by 

Charles Lucy. 

26 Embarkation of the Pilgrims, painting by Wen. 


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27 Gov. Carver’s Chair; Ancient Spinning-wheel. 

28 Elder Brewster’s Chair; Cradle of Peregrine 

White, the first Pilgrim baby. 

29 Sword of Myles Standish ; Iron Pot and Pewter 

Platter, brought by Standish in the “ May¬ 
flower”; Table owned by Gov. Edward 
Winslow. 

30 The “ Mayflower” in Plymouth Harbor, from 

painting by W. F. Hallsall, Pilgrim Hall. 

31 Group of Winslow Relics, Pilgrim Hall. 

32 Group of White Relics, Pilgrim Hall. 

33 National Monument to the Forefathers. 

34 Statue of Freedom, National Monument. 

35 Statue of Law, National Monument. 

36 Statue of Education, National Monument. 

37 Statue of Morality, National Monument. 

38 Treaty with Massasoit, alto-relief on National 

Monument. 

39 Landing of the Pilgrims, alto-relief on National 

Monument. 

40 Clark’s Island, where the Pilgrims spent their 

first Sabbath in Plymouth. 

41 Pulpit Rock, Clark’s Island, from which the 

first sermon was preached. 

42 'The Gurnet, headland at entrance of harbor. 

43 Along Shore from Atwood’s Wharf. 


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44 North Street. 

45 Court Street. 

46 County Court House. 

47 County Prison. 

48 Town Brook. 

49 Almshouse Pond, Town Brook. 

50 Town from Cannon Hill. 

51 Pilgrim Meersteads along Town Brock. 

52 Off* Beach Point, Captain’s Hill. 

53 View along the Wharves from Stephen’s Point. 

54 The Island, Billington Sea. 

55 Outlet, Billington Sea. 

56 Pilgrim Wharf and Along Shore. 

58 Boot Pond. 

60 Morton Park, Entrance. 

61 Little Pond, Morton Park. 

63 Eel River. 

64 Manomet Bluffs. 

65 Rocky Shore, Manomet. 

66 Manomet House. 

67 Hotel Pilgrim. 

68 Samoset House. 

69 Main Street. 

70 Town Square in 1870. 

71 Town Square in 1812. 

72 The First or Common House, 1621. 


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73 Plymouth in 1622,— a combination picture, 

showing Leyden Street, the Old Port, Land¬ 
ing from the Shallop, Plymouth Rock and 
the ship u Mayflower.” 

74 Gov. Bradford’s House, Plymouth. 

75 Birthplace of Gov. William Bradford, Auster- 

field. 

76 Austerfield Church. 

77 Page of the Register, Austerfield Church, 

showing record of the baptism of Gov. 
William Bradford. 

79 Scrooby Church. 

80 Interior Scrooby Church. 

81 Scrooby Manor House. 

82 Bawtry Church. 

83 High Street, Bawtry. 

84 Site of John Robinson’s House at Leyden. 

85 Church at Leyden where John Robinson was 

buried. 

86 Memorial Tablet to John Robinson on Church 

at Leyden. 

87 Old Church at Delft Haven, where the Pilgrims 

held their last service before the embarka¬ 
tion. 

88 The Pilgrim Fathers holding their first meet¬ 

ing for public worship in North America. 


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89 “The March of Myles Standish.” 

90 The Old Sexton’s House, Market Street, 

1720. 

92 Barker House, Pembroke, 1628. 

93 Peregrine White House, Marshfield. 

94 Old Oaken Bucket House, Scituate. 

95 The Doten House, built by William Harlow, 

1660, demolished in 19OL. 

96 Crow House, built by William Crow, 1664. 

97 Oldest House in Plymouth, the Howland 

House, built by Jacob Mitchell, 1666. 

98 William Harlow House, built of timber from 

the Old Burial Hill Fort, by William Har¬ 
low, 1677. 

99 Homestead of Gen. John Winslow, 1726. 

100 The Town House, formerly the Old Colonial 

Court House, built in 1749. 

101 The Winslow House, built in 1754, by Ed¬ 

ward Winslow. Colonial architecture. 

102 Cole’s Blacksmith Shop, 1684. 

103 Leach House, 1679. 

104 Statue of Myles Standish. 

105 Myles Standish Monument. 

106 Standish House, Duxbury, built by son of 

Myles Standish, 1666. 

107 Captain’s Hill, Duxbury, the Home of Myles 


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Standish, showing Standish House and 
Monument. 

108 Grave of Daniel Webster, Marshfield. 

109 Winslow House, Marshfield, built about 1700. 
11 o Fireplace and Secret Closet in chamber of 

Winslow House, Marshfield. 
hi Colonial Doorway of Winslow House, Marsh¬ 
field. 

112 John Alden House, Duxbury, 1653. 

113 Bradford House, Kingston, 1675. 

114 Site of Myles Standish House, Duxbury. 

115 Grave of Myles Standish, Duxbury. 

116 Winslow Tombstone, Marshfield. 

117 Will of Peregrine White. 

118 John Hancock Sofa, Pilgrim Hall. 

119 Memorial Tablet, Gov. William Bradford 

Estate, Kingston. 

120 Departure from Delft Haven. 

121 Priscilla and John Alden. From painting by 

George H. Boughton. 

122 “ Why don’t you Speak for Yourselt, John ? ” 

123 The Courtship. John Alden and Priscilla. 

From painting by George H. Boughton. 

124 Departure of the “ Mayflower,” from paint¬ 

ing by A. W. Bayes. 

125 Priscilla, from painting by G. H. Boughton. 


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126 Pilgrim Exiles, from painting by Boughton. 

127 Pilgrims going to Church, from painting by 

Boughton. 

128 Two Farewells, from painting by Boughton. 

129 Return of the “Mayflower,” painting by 

Boughton. 

130 Portrait of Edward Winslow, Governor of 

Plymouth Colony, one of the u Mayflower ” 
company. The only authentic portrait of a 
w Mayflower ” Pilgrim. 

131 Portrait of Josiah Winslow, Governor of 

Plymouth Colony, 1673 to 1680. 

132 Portrait of Penelope, wife of Gov. Josiah 

Winslow. 

133 Portrait of Gen. John Winslow, second in com¬ 

mand of the expedition against the Acadians 
in 1755. 

134 Portrait of Isaac Winslow, son of John Wins¬ 

low. 

135 Portrait of Elizabeth Wensley, born in Plym¬ 

outh 1641, mother of Sarah, the wife of 
Isaac Winslow. 


Lantern Slides. 

We furnish lantern slides from any subjects on our list of photo¬ 
graphs. They are made by an expert from the original negatives. 
Price, 50 cents each $ $5 00 per dozen. 


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Pilgrim Literature. 

A History of Plymouth, 

By William T. Davis. The best history of the town of Plymouth, 
from the landing of the Pilgrims down to the present time. A con¬ 
cise yet comprehensive sketch of the Pilgrim movement, its origin, its 
growth, its development, and of the settlement at Plymouth, to which 
it finally led. Illustrated with diagrams and Plymouth views. Price 
by mail, $2.50. 

The Pilgrim Republic, 

By John A. Goodwin, a very complete history, in popular form, of 
the Pilgrims in their English homes, their Dutch halting-place, and 
_.'eir development of Plymouth into a permanent community. By 
mail, $4.00. 

Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, 

By William T. Davis, former President of the Pilgrim Society. 
An Historical Sketch and Titles of Estates ; Genealogical Register of 
Plymouth Families. By mail, $4.50. 

The Story of the Pilgrims 

By Morton Dexter. Illustrated with views in Austerfield, Leyden, 
and Plymouth. By mail, 75 cents. 

Standish of Standish, 

By Jane G. Austin. A story of the Pilgrims. Deeply interesting. 
Historically accurate. i6mo, cloth, 422 pages. By mail, $1.25. 
Holiday edition, two volumes, illustrated, $ 5 . 00 . 

Betty Alden, 

By Jane G. Austin. The story of the first-born daughter of the 
Pilgrims. i6mo, cloth, 384 pages. By mail, $1.25. 


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A Nameless Nobleman, 

By Jane G. Austin. A story of the Old Colony. i6mo, cloth, 369 
pages. By mail, $1.25. 

Dr. LeBaron and his Daughters, 

By Jane G. Austin. A story of the Old Colony. i6mo, cloth, 460 
pages. By mail, $1.25. 

David Alden’s Daughter, 

And Other Stories of Colonial Times, by Jane G. Austin. i6mo, 
cloth, 316 pages. By mail, $1.25. 

kittle Pilgrims at Plymouth, 

By F. A. Humphrey. The Pilgrim Story told for Children. i6mo, 
cloth, 331 pages, illustrated. By mail, $1.25. 

The First Church in Plymouth. 

A Brief History from 1606 to 1901, by John Cuckson, Minister, 
i6mo, cloth, 118 pages. By mail, #1.10. 

Myles Standish, 

Captain of the Pilgrims, by John S. C. Abbott. i6mo, cloth, 372 
pages. By mail, $1.25. 

The Pilot of the Mayflower. 

A Tale of the Children of the Pilgrim Republic. By Hezekiah 
Butterworth. Illustrated by H. Winthrop Peirce and others. i2mo, 
cloth. By mail, $1.50. 

Historic Towns of New England, 

Edited by Rev. Lyman P. Powell. The volume presents a connected 
account of the more important events and incidents in the history of 
Plymouth, Concord, Cambridge, Portland, Rutland, Salem, Boston, 
Deerfield, Newport, Providence, Hartford, New Haven, and Cape 
Cod towns. 160 illustrations, octavo. By mail, $3.50 

;•? 4 c* I# 


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On Plymouth Rock, 

By Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrated, cloth, 173 pages, 60 cents. 

Fatience, 

A daughter of the Mayflower, by Elizabeth W. Champney. Illus¬ 
trated, I2mh, cloth, 336 pages, by mail, $1.50. 

Historic Pilgrimages in New England. 

Among Landmarks of Pilgrim and Puritan Days and of the 
Provincial and Revolutionary Periods. By Edwin M. Bacon. 475 
pages and 130 illustrations. By mail, $1.50. 


Illustrated Plymouth Books. 


Guide to Historic Plymouth. 

Descriptive of the historic points and localities famous in the 
story of the Pilgrims. Illustrated with many half-tone engravings 
and sketches in pen and ink. A beautiful cover design in color, by 
Hallowell, of John Alden and Priscilla. Price by mail, 25 cents. 

The Pilgrim Town of Duxbury, Illustrated. 

Twenty-four full-page illustrations of historic houses and paint¬ 
ings, Mayflower relics, and scenes about the homes of Standish, Wins¬ 
low, and Alden. Brief descriptive lines accompany the pictures. 
Size of book, 8 x 10. Price, 25 cents ; by mail, 30 cents. 

Handbook of Old Burial Hill. 

Its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs, by Frank 
H. Perkins. Illustrated with pencil drawings, sketches, and tracings 
of the curious old gravestones to be seen in this place of sepulture of 
Pilgrims and descendants. Price by mail, 25 cents. 


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This miniature design 
is from the cover of a fine 
edition of the illustrated 
folio, “Pilgrim Plymouth.” 

The pictures are full- 
page, with brief descriptive 
lines, and consist of repro¬ 
ductions from paintings of 
scenes in Pilgrim liter rt nd 
photographs of historic 
points in old Plymouth. • 


Size of book, 8 x io. Price, 25 cents; by mail, 30 cents. 


A Souvenir of Plymouth Parks, 

Containing a brief history of their acquisition by the town, forty-six 
views in half-tone of some of the most attractive localities, and a 
map of Morton Park. The book is 7 x 9 inches in size, contains 
sixty-four pages, and has a handsome cover design in color, by L. 
J. Bridgman. Price, securely boxed for mailing, 60 cents. 


Miniature Album of Plymouth. 

Twenty-five dainty little pictures of historic points and sub¬ 
jects in a novel and artistic setting. Price by mail, 25 cents. 


The Plymouth Calendar. 

Each monthly page, of the Plymouth Calendar shows in half¬ 
tone a pretty view in the historic old town of Plymouth. A new 
sec ^f pictures every year. By mail, 25 cents. 


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Sterling Silver Spoons, 
Souvenirs of Pilgrim 
Plymouth. 


COFFEE, 

1. Mayflower . . $1.00 

2. Plymouth Rock, i.oo 

3- Courtship of Myles 

Standish . . i.oo 

4- Priscilla . . . 1.25 

5- Myles Standish . 1.25 

6. Landing of the Pil¬ 

grims . . . 1.00 

7. John and Priscilla 1.00 

8. Pilgrim Monument 1.00 

9* Standish “ 1.00 


Add ten cents if you want 
package registered. 


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(0tti Mm pilgrim piatra 

10 INCH 


This set of plates, as illustrated, was made to our order in Stafford¬ 
shire, England. 

The border design and old blue coloring is an exact reproduction of 
the old Staffordshire plates made in the eighteenth century. 

The central pictures are from objects and paintings of interest in Pil¬ 
grim history. The reverse side bears the title and a quotation encircled 
by a wreath of Mayflowers. 

The decoration, in a deep old blue, is under the glaze and therefore 
indelible. 

There are eight subjects: The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor: The 
Landing of the Pilgrims; Priscilla and John Alden ; Pilgrim Monu¬ 
ment; Myles Standish House, 1666; John Alden House; Pilgrim Hall; 
“ Why don’t you speak for yourself, John ? ” 

The price is six dollars per dozen or fifty cents each, packed for ex¬ 
pressing. Price by mail, in a safety mailing box, seventy-five cents each. 


OftljS WlnttiM* 17 inch, to match plates, $2.00 each. 

UPm mug jjiaiinv Cups and Saucers to match, $6.00 per 


dozen. 


A. Hurbank, Pilgrim Ifoakstarr 

Plyuumth, Uiaaa. 


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Y e Sworde of Myles Standish. 

*|Spake, in the pride of his heart, Myles Standish, the Cap¬ 
tain of Plymouth,— 

‘ This is the sword of Damascus I fought with in Flanders.’ * 

— Longfellow 

The famous Damascus blade of the redoubtable Pilgrim 
Captain is one of the most valuable relics to be seen in Pilgrim 
Hall. It was handed down to Myles Standish from the Cru 
saders, and possessed an interesting history even in his day 
Our swords are perfectly copied from the original, even in the 
engraving of the curious Arabic inscription on the blade. Prices by 
mail: — 

Paper Cutters, sterling handles and blades . $1.00 
Paper Cutters, sterling handles, steel blades . .75 
Scarf Pins, sterling . . . . .1.00 

Scarf Pins, oxidized . . . . . .50 

The Mayflower Candlestick. 

An exact copy of a brass candlestick brought over in the May¬ 
flower by William White, father of Peregrine White. The original 
candlestick is now in Pilgrim Hall. Price, $1.50 each. If by mail, 
add 25 cents postage. 

The Compact 

Signed in the cabin of the Mayflower, November 21, 1620, with 
the names of the signers. 

Printed in old style type on a parchment paper made by hand 
in 1856, and mounted on rollers in the form of a scroll. Price, se¬ 
curely packed, by mail, 25 cents. 

Sterling- Silver Pins. 

Correct representations of Plymouth Rock and of the ship 
Mayflower in the shape of stick pins and hat pins. Price of either 
design, postpaid, 25 cents. 



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No. 40, Pan l%x3 
50c. 



No. 32 

Height 8% in. 
$1.25 


No-. 41 
Pan 2%x5)^ 
75c. 



No. 20 

Height 8% in. 
$1.50 



No. 02 

Height 7% in. 
$1.25 


No. 10 

Height in. 
$1.00 


SOLID BRASS 




No. 36 
Height 8 in. 
$1.35 


ESTICKS 


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POINTS OF INTEREST. 


The first thing to do after arriving at Plymouth is to secure the 
best service possible to see the places of interest and have 
them properly explained. If you will inquire for 


A. C. Chandler & Son’s 


Carriages, 

which are always at the depot and wharf on arrival of trains 
or boat, you will secure good teams and experienced drivers 
and guides. 


A. C. CHANDLER & SON, 

LIVERY AND HACK STABLES, 

Middle Street and Park Avenue, Plymouth, Mass. 

Connected by Telephone. Excursion parties a specialty 


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Old r r 

Curiosity Shop 

KEPT BY 

WINSLOW BREWSTER STANDISH, 

(A lineal descendant of Capt. Myles Standish) 

DEALER IN 

ANCIENT and ANTIQUE FURNITURE, 
PEWTER WARE, CROCKERY and CHINA, 
FIRE SETS, OLD BOOKS, 

and a variety of Ancient Articles. Also a large assortment of 
Views, Guide Books, and other Plymouth Souvenirs. 

Water St., near foot of Leyden, PLYMOUTH, MASS. 


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Sttttu'r on Arrttml of 

SUMMER BOARD AT REASONABLE PRICES. 
HOUSE OPEN THE YEAR AROUND. 

Electric Lights. Steam Heat. 

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